When conducting field observations, personal impressions and feelings are included in field

notes in order to:



a. assess the possibility that bias is coloring one’s observations.
b. reduce the likelihood of going native.
c. encourage informants to share their feelings openly with the researcher.
d. make it possible to do quantitative data analysis.


A

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